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The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-09-08
Pr anzini, the Murderer Of Three Persons, Gull.
lOtined In Paris.

lOtlueu In faTl8s
Pranzini, the murderer of Nine. Reg.
nault, her maid and her maids child, was
guillotined in Paris the LIST. He made no
confession. Vast crowds waited about
the place OF execution all night. and kept
up u constant bowling and yelling. The
din was horrible. When the chaplain
arrived, the mass OF people was
so great that Pranzini was almost
prevented from reaching the gate OF the
prison. Pranzini marched from his cell to
the scaffold with a firm step and defiant
air. When the executioners seized him the
murderer resisted and fought desperately,
declaring that they must let him alone.
The executioners overpowered him and
threw him on the machine, and in an in.
slant had him securely bound. Immedi-
ately the terrible knife was started. 1t
descended with horrible slowness at first,
but then it's movement quickened, and the
head OF the murderer rolled into the
basket. The mob outside became very
disorderly during the progress OF the execu.
ton. Pranzini was awakened out OF q
sound sleep at 4:45 o'clock by the j~ailors.
Father Beauquesne, chaplain OF La Ro-
quette. entered the prisoners cell and ex-
horted him to be courageous. Pranzini
replied that he had no fear, but regretted
that the only favor he had asked. that of
permission to see his mother, had been
refused. He reiterated his profession OF
innocence, and refused to make confession
to the priest, saying. "'Father, you do your
duty. / will do mine.'
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-09-08
There are present of the governors staff:


Gen. N. N. Tyner of
Fargo. adjutant gen.
eral; Gen. James Ring
rose Of Aberdeen, chief
Of supply: Col J. E. Ell
son Of Huron, inspector
general: Col. William
III. Brown Of Grand
Forks, chief Of engi-
neers; Col. G. G. Huff Of
Huron, surgeon General
Maj. Frank S. Cornish.
assistant engineer, OF
Steele. Aides: Col. Ivan
Wy NJ
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-09-08
SOLDIERS OF A OTA.
kota Militia. and the Encampment Is
Auspiciously Opened.
Over Six Hundred Officers and Men Essay the
Pleasures and Hardships Of Military
Life In Camp. 81

HURON, Special, Sept 1.-THE first three
days Of this week were very favorable for a
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-09-08

v. Goother otHuron, Col. -.Gok.c
Frank A. Gale Of Canton, Col. Thomas J. Wilder
of Casselton, Col. o. E. Dewey Of Watertown,
Col. ]. H. Mulchahey OF Fargo, Col. A. II. Lewis
Milbank. .~
Nine companies of each regiment are pres
ent- nine making a full regiment, instead of
ten az in war laws. 49,. ="
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-09-08
These are the field and

staff OF the First regi-
ment: 1. $50.
i. Colonel. William A.
BARLEY. Bismarck; lieu
tenant colonel, Elliott s.
Miller, jamestown; ma
jor, Antoine l.. Lott, Red
field: adjutspt, Lieut..
William A. Dillon, Bis
:aarck: missary,
Lieut.. I. G. Wade. James
town: surgeon, Maj. e.
Nj. barrow. Faggo: assist
ant surgeon. Capt. John
x. Knutnewsky. Redheld ;
chaDlain. Rev. Francis r.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-09-08

ingly ~unpropitious for q
military ~encampment.
Detachments were or
dered to be here on
Tuesday to lay out the
camp and put up the
tents. They came, but
they could do nothing
because of the mud and
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-09-08

pucuulO
At Huron, the free delivery system
WAS set in operation here by The post
Office department. Two carriers are
employed.
AZ Northfeld. Clara Reidel, aced
about 1S, was murdered and the
house fred to conceal the crime. A
brother returning from q neichbor,s
found the house on. fire, forced 8 d en-
trance, and found his sisters body
lying across the bed horribly, burned
he managed to drag the body out
the house and barn being destroyed
by fire. At the inquest it was discoyas
cred that she had been choked and
stabbed, notraped, as FIRST supposed.
The cracker factory at Sioux Falln
intends TO, make 200 barrels Of crackx
ers per day. s
The McCook county fairlwil ~ h3
at Salem September 81. 20 and 49,.
The new Congregational church ~
Buffalo Gap was, dedicated.
The Dakota university III Mitohsn.
begins It's tall term September Is.
has q preparatory, q collegiate, enorx
NAL and 9 musical department.
Three balloon ascensions are 1n
nounced at Mitchell, at the HerrIe
torial Fair on the last thiee dG1E
lone each day. Sept. 26th,s20th,
fSOth. The ascensions Will be
by the celebrated eronautsP roG. JaS3
Comes, Of Springfield, His, uuder6 il1IH
management Of Thos.aJeN1i
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-10-06
RetrOgressiOn- The Remedies
Agricultural Schools in Europe
The Necessity and Duty Of Sustain
ing the A. Il N. College and Girls
College!
The State University Further Discussed
Walden, MISS, Sept. 10, 1887.

Walden, MISS, Sept. 10, 1887.
SENATOR J. u. GEORGE, Jackson, Mss:
DEAR SIR At the instance OF a number of citi-
Eens of this vicinity, | am requested to ask for
publication your views Oh the general business
and financial outlook Of our State on the import
ance of State aid TO the A Il NJ. College and the
Industrial Institute and College, also, your views
as to the importance of the State sustaining the
University by donations from the treasury. These
are matters that will doubtless be considered by
the next Legislature, and their discussion by YOU,
at this time, would be generally appreciated. Our
people approve OF what the State has been dol ny
of late years, for the education of her and
daughters and will cheerfully contribute what
may be reasonable to continue the good work.
Your Ob't servant, l. X. HEGGIE.
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-10-06

property is assessed, as is most usual,
at about one half of its true value, he
may be the owner Of $4,000 worth of
property, besides 81 900 of exempt prop
erty, and pay no more than he receives In
educating his children, and. there
fore, he pays NOTHING TO THE SUP
Port OF THE GOVERNMENT, STATE
OR COUNTY, AND NONE TO THE COL
LEGR5. Yet if he is a thrifty person,
he can send his boys to the A. & NJ.
College, and his girls to the Industrial
Institute. So you see how little there il
in this idea of taxing the poor to send
rich peoples children to college.
But we will take the case of a man
who has no children to educate,-an old
bachelor, for instsnce,-and let us see
how much he is oppressed for education
in the A. Il VI. and in the Fe male Tnsti.
tute. Let him be a resident of Carroll
county, and assessed at 81 1000 The
average assessment of lands in Carroll
county, leaving ont the towns of Val
den, Black Hawk and CarroIltpn. is
81 622 per acre; Of hOrs -, it is 500 IL
per head; cattle, $50 per neal Such
a man may own, in Carroll county, of
property of the average value, 240 acres
of land, assessed at. ........ ........$630 90
Three horses .........................l 1879 80
One wagon wOrth.................... 40 90
Head OF cattle 90, worth .......... ia 90
In ALL. Observation-Disclosures 30
leaving a surplus of S26.66 for other
property. In addition, he may own As
exempt from taxation
Household and kitchen furni
ture to the amount of ......-S $50 90
Wearing apparel for self aud
family, Observation-Disclosures. $50 90
All the farm products cotton,
corn, meat, oats and rye, say 500 90
Provisions for his family for
year, say.......................... $50 90
One gun, worth, say .............. Is 90
Ten sheep or goats. Is 90
All colts under three years of
age, say 3, 1T $25 each...... IS 90
Two COWS and calves. ......... 80 90
All his farming utensils, say. 80 90
! His books, to whatever amount
he pleases.. ................. ....--
| Total ........... .......... ISL 800 90
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-10-06

So you see that our population, follow
ing natures provisions, are nearly all
agriculturists, and that the remainder are
dependents on, or aids TO, this principal
business. 1t thus appears that if gri-
culture goes down, all else goes down
with it. Yet, with all this, we see the
extraordinary fact, that Mississippi is
still the
THIRTEEN TIL IN AGRICULTURAL PROD
UCTS.
How is it TO be explained, that we pro-
duce so much and have so little? To
this | will now address myself.
First, you must remember, that it is
not gross or total production, hut net
production that makes wealth. We may
raise five million bales of cotton in Mis-
sissippi, as we easily can, if we had the
population-yet, if we spend in making
it, and whilst making it, the whole
value of the cotton, we have not added
one dollar to our wealth; and, | may
add, under our present system of cul-
ture, taking everything from mother
earth and returning nothing,-in the
shape of manure and fertilizers,-we are
as much poorer as we have worn and
impoverished our lands So then, at
the outset, is perceived not the causa
cdetsdnS, or efficient cause, but the result
ant cause of our failure to advance in
wealth.
To go now to some of the causes
which, aggregating together make this
disastrous result. One of these is the
protective system, which makes US pay
more for what we buy-that others may
grow rich, and receive less for what We
sell. Another is, the large taxation for
national purposes larger than the needs
of the Government--and the expendi-
ture of an undue proportion of it on
other more favored sections. These are
some of the causes, which | think can
not be removed now. We can only try,
with hopes of success hereafter.
But this alone would not make the
disastrous results, which we see all
around us.
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-10-06
BOOK FARMING.

This brings me TO the A. & NJ. College
at Starkville. was not an original
Trustee. The College was located be,
fore | was a Trustee; but from that
time till now, l have watched its prog
ress with satisfaction, not unmingled
with anxiety. 1t has, under its able
Faculty, succeeded beyond my expecta-
tions. | am going to resign; not be.
cause | feel less interest in the College,
but because, | find my duties at Wash
ington prevent me from attending the
meetings of the Beard of Trustees more
than once in two years. But | am not
going to resign now, because there is
just now storm of clamor against the
The Opelousas courier., 1887-01-15
Musical Accent

Tom Cock was %subpnnaed as o wit
ness: On examination by Sir james
Scarlet he was asked
sSWhat is a musical accent2"
MY terms are a guinea a lesson" salo
Cook.
A loud laugh.
Sir James, who was rather RULED:
said
Never mind your terms-l ask yor
what is a musical accent. Can you
see itgt
t'No."
''Can You feel it,"
"a musician cam
Great laughter.
CHOW, pray, sir" said Sir James, very
angry, don't beat about the bush, bu1
explain to his lordship and the jury, who
arc supposed to know nothing about
music, the meaning of what you call
'~accent.'n
accent in music is a certain stress
hid upon a particular note, in the same
manner as YOU would lay a stress upon
ANY given word for the purpose OF
being Letter understood. Thus, if l
were to say, 'Tou are a donkey it rests
on the donkey; bat if l were to say,
You are a donkey it rests on you, elr
James,"
Reiterated shouts of laughter by the
whole court, in which the bench itself
Joined, followed this repartee.
Silence being at last restored, the
Judge, with much seeming gravity, &C
costed the chopfallen counsel thus
.tAre you satisfied, Sir James"
Sir James, in a great huff, said,-
tThe witness may go down."
The Opelousas courier., 1887-01-15
Tanned With Electricity.

Nearly Eevery day some new use IL
found for electricity, and n OF inc
most recent appliances Of this power Is
in the interest of the professional tanner
Of wild animals. The inventor Is a
tanner himself, and his instrument Is an
apparatus shaped like a stick, and highly
charged with electricity. When the
animals become unrlly he gives them
shocks from this battery. and the
effects are said to be instantaneous.
Three Of his lions showed signs OF the
greatest terror. They were seized with
trembling, and growIed ftfully. The
,iper was more quickly subdued; became
,tupefed and crouched in a corner OF the
age. Bruin was more refractory to cleo
ricity, which seemed scarcely to affect
aim. He would growl and show his
teeth, but was subdued after repeated
charges.
The most astonishing effects, however,
we're p~erceptible in the boa constructor.
in receiving the charge, the specimen
rom Cayenne, nearly twenty feet IN
ength, became at one paralyzed, and
,emained motionless for six hours alter
ward. When he recovered he showed
igns of helplessness for three whole
lays. Finally, the elephant, on being
| electrified by a touch of the stick upon
he tip of his Trunk, set up a series OF wild
,ries, and became so frantic that the
amer feared he would break his heavy
| ron chain.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-01-15
Ks11tng Wtld Geese With a cl,sb.

Sunday morning a heavy fog pre-
vailed on the 'dobe lands west of town.
The mist was so dense that the wild
geese few very close TO the ground. ].
K. Bachus became aware Of the latter
fact and stationed himself in his corral,
with an ak helve in his hand, to see
whether or not he could hit any Of the
birds as they few By. In two hours
time he killed Itwenty-three geese and
four mallard ducks with his club.
Parties hunting along Butte creek during
the foggy weather have frequently told
Us Of shooting geese when 50 close that
the fash Of the gun singed their feathers,
but this is the first time we have re-
ceiyed reliable information OF . man
gccessfully hunting such garno with 9
club.-Gridz6y (Cal.o Hsrad.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-01-15
Expensive Sounding.

In an article describing how the big
war panoramas on exhibition in various
cities are made, a writer ingrs Nssbs1as
says: 1ss eileeI +
The question is frequently asked,
"What paints do the artists use in paint
ing the battle panoramasF" Only colors
of the best quality are used, such as are
used by an artist in his work upon a
fine oilpainting. This color, is, o
course, purchased in very large quanti-
ties; as an instance for the panorama in
which I was interested, the rich Yellow
ish paint, known as cadmium, cost two
hundred dollars, and was contained in
four tin cans, each the size OF, an ordinary
peach-can. An amusing Incident oc-
Cured in this connection during the
painting of one of the panoramas.
When the composition is drawn, the
general plan for that part of the CYCLIC
rama known as the foreground, which is
composed of natural objects, is also
thought out. 1t is then settled what
portions of the great canvas win be
hidden by the foreground of natural OBJ
iects, such as real earthworks, mounds of
s%od-covered earth, and log breast
works. Usually that part of the canvas
is left without color, except such fanci-
full sketches as the artists may paint for
studio view only. Abortion of our pic
ture, tsThe Battle of Missionary Ridge"
was left thus blank aud bare, and was
most disturbing to the German professor
who was tho chief artist. His eye was
so distracted and troubled by it that he
one day directed some of the l~oiterir g
models to take some color, ssany color"
he said, .sand scumble over the surface
TO tone it down.
The models, dressed as Union and
| Confederate soldiers and officers, worked
industriously for twenty minutes, when
it was suddenly discovered that they had
emptied three fifty dollar cans Of cad-
MUM and were opening the fourth A
half dollars worth Of cheap house paint
would have been better, for no prepara-
ton had been used to make the cadmi-
UNI dry, and it was still soft when the
panorama was sent for exhibition to
| Chicago. What the artists said when
they discovered the models mistake was
not plain to me-, as it was spoken in Ger
man; but / know that they ell talked at
the same time and very vigorously.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-01-15
A Mere Accident.

In searching for gold in the mining
egions, men sometimes hunt months and
nonths before they find gold in any
quantity. They find just enough to
make them hope that next day: or week,
n month, they will find enough to make
hem wealthy. Often it is the merest &C,
.ident that makes the gold visible. One
IF the Western papers gives an account
Of the way the proprietor discovered the
gold where the mining camp Esmeralda
S now located. The vein is what the
miners call a s'blind LEDGE that is,
here is nothing on the surface of the
ground to lead one to think that gold
vas beneath the surface. One day the
o~rospector saw a mass of decomposed
luartz mingled with some dirt that had
oeen scratched out by ground-squirl els
when digging holes in the side of the
hill. He examined the quartz carefully.
and decided to follow the holes dug by
ihe squirrel. He found the vein, and
now a rich mining camp is located where
The squirrels dug the holes showing the
way to the gold.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-01-15
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.

fails to produce heat In metals under the
influence of magnets IS now being dis
cussed. Metals ST exposed have been
turned in a lathe quite cold.
One Of the peculiarities of a $50 pound
pumpkin grown at Newburg, N. Y,
was that it was fed on milk. A root was
sent out from the vine to a basin of
milk, and it consumed a pint of the fluid
each day.
It seems that Lieut.. Greedy believes
in the theory that there is an open sea,
some 1900 miles in diameter, round
about the pole, that never freezes, the
conjecture being that the pole itself is
the centre of an ice-capped land; covered
with ice from 1000 to 1000 feet thick.
A curious fact concerning Mont Blanc
has been communicated to the Paris
Academy of Sciences by Mons. Oh.
Zengler. It is that a bluish-green glow
about the top of the mountain some.
times remains visible until half-past ten
o'clock at night. Mons. Zengler conclud-
ed that this phosphorescence was due
to ice and carbonate of lime mingled;
and he has succeeded in photographing
the glow.
The big trees of California will soon
be extinct. Seventeen lumber companies
owning from 5000 to 25, 900 acres of red.
wood forest each, are waging the war of
determination with all the weapon
known to the modern logging camp.
The demand for the wood is unlimited,
and all the mills are kept at work to the
limit Of their capacity. The forests are
large, but the forces employed against
them are swift and irresistible.
Sir William Thompson, the celebrated
English physicist, has given as his con.
elusion from a study of the rate of radi-
atm of heat from the sun that: SIT
seems, therefore, on the whole, most
probable that the sun has not illuminated
the earth for 100, 000, 900 years and
almost certain that he has not done 50
for 500, 600, 900 years. AS for the future
we may say, with equal certainty, that
inhabitants of the earth cannot continue
to enjoy the light and heat essential to
their life for MANI miI1inn uoors lon oor
unless sources now unknown to us are
prepared in the great storehouse OF
creation"
In many parts of the world the process
of denudation has left detached col.
umns and pinnacles of rock which are
readily overthrow or destroyed, while
in countries one worn by glaciers there
are thousands of poised boulders which
are equally sensitive to shocks. These
seismometers furnish a means of deter
mining whether severe earthquakes have
visited since a very remote period, place.
where they have never been recorded.
A study Of such evidence has shown
Prof. N. s. Shaler that certaia portions
of the Rocky mountains, the regions ol
the Upper Tennessee river, the coas
district of Maine, with saxony and some
other parts Of Europe, have been exemp
from great shocks for some tens of thous
ands of years. ,
The Opelousas courier., 1887-01-15
Whaf q Woman hid.

Fifteen years ago Jennie Collins was a
t~aileress in Boston, working for her
daily bread. Feeling keeniy the depri-
vations and misery Of the large clsss OF
shop girls who live in boarding houses
and lodging rooms, and who have no
friends in time Of sickness and trouble,
she appealed to her employer, q humane
man, for assistance in establishing q
headquarters for them, where they could
e~ongregate for social purposes and self
help. he did for her more than she
asked, and sBofin's Bower was estab-
lished, which is now in the sixteenth
ycar OF its existence. It has exerted a
marvellous influence for good over those
who were ready to perish
During the lifetime Of Wendell Phil
fins. whenever Jennie Collins failed to
obtain means elsewhere, she went to
him. who was everybodyss helper. Hon.
william ]. Bowdich Of Boston, the adj
ministrator Of Wendell Phillips estate,
has shown uae 3 little book With leather
back ana coruors, iii which HAnn and
Wendell PhiIlips'' recorded the money
they gave away. The grand total, n
elusive Of large and small sums, from
is45 to 1875, was 1854, no. And yei
neither of them was wealthy IN tht
moaern aeceptation Of the word.-cAaa-
Eauqaan.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-01-15
Warann,s Work.

Do you ever think of the great change
that has come about in the last ten or
twelve years in regard to woman's work2
Ten years ago the sight of a uni as
cashier in aay of our stores was a
novelty, and such q thing as one in al
insurance office or law Office or ttamong
the mem was scarcely thought of. Go
where you will in our city to-day and
you will find women earning their way
and doing their work well. They are
our stenographers, typewriters, copyists,
cashiers, clerks and workers in many
ways. Every manufacturer who can
employ them does so. They are in the
postoficc, pension Office and other gov
eminent departments, and you needn't
be- surprised to find them scattered
through the city hall when there ome
adeal by WHICH candidates a be
elected unpledged. Aud right here it
may be said, as a hint to candidates
that one good looking, worthy young
lady would influence more votes in De-
troit than any five young men you can
name. If q situation for her depended
on any certain candidates. election he
would be pretty certain to get there
III. quad.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-01-15
The Parsoss and Eddie.

a welI-known doctor of divinity, not
now living, was, like many Of u, re-
ticent On the subject Of age, and his
youthful grandson, 9 ike other chill.
dren. curious about the same subject.
At the table one day out burst the ques-
ton.
ssGrandfather, how old ore you9"
How plainly hear the familiar, de-
liberate accents!
tWhy. Eddie, ! il moro than sixty
ssWhat More than sixty, and not deed
setln-Epstoa Iaeoord.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-01-15
A Foolash auI Stubborn Belief

u u uEssR =.
IN the efficacy of certain remedies Of violent
action, is the hesetting foible Of the ignorant
and prejudicea. The indiscriminate use OF
purgatives is a very common phase OF the
faulty of such people. Aloes, podyphillin,
disguised in sugar coating, castor oil, mercury
and other old fashioned drugs, still ho.d THEN
own among this class, and although the sue
cess of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters sufficiently
d:sproves the necessity for violence in medr
cation, the adherents of an exploded fallacy
still pers' st in giving and taking inordinate
purgativ, do ;es. Dysrep,ia constipation, liver
complaint are as certainly n thoroughly
subdued by the Bitters, asst ey al invarlapiy
cines. ~oficinal or proprietary, belon eng to the
class which we have condemned. Fever ana
ague, nervousness. rheumatism and inactivity
OF the kidneys yield 10 the Bitters.